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To: Natural Law
"Scriptures are only an incomplete reflection of the Word. They are important only in that they give testimony to God. Jesus is found in the Eucharist and Grace in the Sacraments."

II Tim 3:16,17, "All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for correction, for training in righteousness that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work."

I'll defer to the Scriptures over your opinion that we need your organization, my FRiend. Even though your private interpretation is that this is my "private interpretation". An "adequate" interpretation is better than an "incomplete" interpretation. And, I certainly want to find eternal life in Jesus, or rather as Paul said, to be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own, but a righteousness from Him.

188 posted on 03/22/2012 10:39:20 AM PDT by Dutchboy88
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To: Dutchboy88

Profitable or useful is quite different in meaning from entirely sufficient by itself.

thanks for your posts.


189 posted on 03/22/2012 10:43:07 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Dutchboy88
"II Tim 3:16,17"

Thank you for proving my point. St. Paul is telling us that Scripture is a great training aid. No Catholic will argue with that. But The ministry of Jesus is infinitely more than is included in the Bible as we are taught in John 21:25

"And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written. - John 21:25

At the time this letter was written the only Scripture available was the Old Testament. Since Jesus and His ministry was predicted over 450 times in the Old Testament it was indeed profitable ("useful" and "beneficial") for all of these things, but it was not by itself to be an object of worship, a gnostic key, or a book of incantations with special healing powers to be cited to ward off evil spirits and Catholics.

190 posted on 03/22/2012 10:49:41 AM PDT by Natural Law (If you love the Catholic Church raise your hands, if not raise your standards.)
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